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| Stock Trader's Almanac 2008 (Almanac Investor Series) | 
 enlarge | Author: Jeffrey A. Hirsch
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
List Price: $39.95
Buy New: $21.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Media: Spiral-bound
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.7 x 1.1
ISBN: 0470109858
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.6322
EAN: 9780470109854
Publication Date: October 5, 2007
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Product Description
The Stock Trader's Almanac is a practical investment tool that has helped traders and investors forecast market trends with accuracy and confidence for over 40 years. Organized in an easy-to-access calendar format, the 2008 Edition contains historical price information on the stock market, provides monthly and daily reminders, and alerts users to seasonal opportunities and dangers. For its wealth of information and authority of its sources, the Stock Trader's Almanac stands alone as the guide to intelligent investing.
"Jeff Hirsch is following in the great tradition of his father, Yale Hirsch, with this nonpareil almanac of Wall Street data. It's a treasure for investors who want to remember the past as they plan for the future."
-Louis Rukeyser, late founding host, Wall $treet Week
"Information is key to successful investing and investors will find the Almanac a chock-a-block source of need-to-know stuff."
-Steve Forbes, President, CEO, and Editor in Chief, Forbes
"I have every issue since 1976 in my bookcase. The Stock Trader's Almanac is an invaluable resource."
-Marty Zweig, author, Martin Zweig's Winning on Wall Street
"The Stock Trader's Almanac should be on every investor's desk. It's an invaluable source of investment advice, trading patterns, and Wall Street lore. It's also fun to read. I refer to it frequently throughout the year."
-Myron Kandel, founding financial editor, CNN
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 Stock Trader Almanac 2008 has much good info July 7, 2008
It goes into depth about statistical data from the stock markets over history. Many trends are significant and some are not. To get the most out of the book, one needs to compare some of the conclusions drawn. At times, there are trends that can conflict with one another in any one year. One needs to really think about it before acting on the suggestions.
As educational and the valuable reference w lists and can be used as another resource to eliminate your emotional mis-decisions. June 16, 2008
Stock Traders Almanac authors Yale and Jeffrey Hirsch are often quoted at least once in every issue of Barron's and at least weekly on CNBC for their historical analysis and
The accuracy is the predictions are better than most, such as "As goes January goes the year" and the first five days of January are an early warning system.
"The last 36 up First Five Days were followed by full-year gains 31 times for an 86.1% accuracy ratio..."
In 2008, our first five trading days of January from 1/2 thru 1/8 saw the DJIA lose over 3.5% (13,043 on 1/2/08 and closing at 12,589 on 1/8/08 and look at where we are now.
This guide is a superb tool for index traders and index ETF's such as the Diamonds and Spiders family of stocks and their options.
There will never be a single predictive source for any trader or THE one source for all traders, but for successful index traders this is the most commonly used resource.
 A useful adjunct for the busy investor March 16, 2008
I purchased the Stock Trader's Almanac 2008 on the advice of a couple of folks on a discussion board I visit from time to time. Having used it now for about 6 weeks I find it stimulating but not as helpful as I hoped it would be. The quotes are rich -- but in today's market the trends it notes over the past many years do not seem to be holding up.
Perhaps it is all the ways the government is trying to intervene to bolster up the market. Don't know. But I do not consult it for serious investing.
Interesting -- yes. Big picture. Yes. Helpful to the beginning active trader -- marginal.
A fantastic resource March 6, 2008
I have been buying the Stock Trader's Almanac annually since 2004. I am continually intrigued by the tips, trends, and strategies it provides. There is also handy and well-formatted section for maintaining your trading and investment records. It is geared for the mid-term to long-term trader; a.k.a. swing traders. Highly recommended.
A must-have for a trader but mostly info-porn January 19, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Amazon says this book is hardcover and it is. If you read carefully, it also says, "Publisher: Wiley; Spi edition (October 5, 2007)". I was pleasantly surprised to see that it is spiral bound within the hardcover; this is extremely useful because the hardcover book can lie flat on a table.
This book is a must-have for any active trader so you know what is going on during that time of the year. I mean seriously, it's only $25 and it's chump change compared to the amount in commissions you blow each month.
I was initially very excited about reading the book, but as time went on, I realized that the book mostly contains info-porn. You need to remember that most of what this book contains are averages of what happened in the past. Does it really help me to know that the authors believe that the probability that the S&P 500 will rise on January 22, 2008 is 38.1%? Nope, not really. The only thing it tells me is that I should probably hold my short positions for one more day just because this day has historically been weak. However, given that much of the recent market action has primarily been data driven (weakening economy, massive losses at banks, etc.), this information is of very little use.
There are, however, some things that are very relevant for 2008. In particular, the December low indicator (page 40) is extremely relevant because we just took out the December low.
UPDATE on July 24th: If I could figure out how to change the number of stars on this book's rating, I'd give it a one. You could probably make more money by flipping a coin rather than listening to this book.
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